374 piciD^, 



chin, throat, and fore neck bufFy or yellowish white, with a black 

 auricular stripe and another black stripe bordering the throat and 

 fore neck ; undcrparts blackish olive, the median feathers of the 

 chest and breast, as well as those of the abdomen, tipped with 

 crimson, this colour forming a broad stripe ; the sides of the chest 

 striped, the sides of the breast, the Hanks, and thighs spotted 

 with yellowish white ; under tail-coverts olive, slightly striped with 

 white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries golden white, the former 

 spotted with black. Total length 8-3 inches, culmen 1-3, wing •4"4, 

 tail 2-7, tarsus 0'75 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0"6, outer 

 posterior 0'()7, inner anterior O'o, inner posterior 0-3. 



Young male. Similar to the adult of the same sex, but having 

 the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts dingy olive : the red on the 

 underparts confined to the tips of a few of the central feathers of 

 the chest and breast, and of a very dull crimson. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in the absence of red 

 on the head, the crown and occiput being black. Total length 7*5 

 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 4-6, tail 2-9, tarsus 0-8. 



Hah. West Africa, between Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast. 



a. 5 ad. St. Gold Coast. Capt. Moloney [P.]. 



h, c. (S fid. ; d, e. Fantee. Shaipe Coll. 



Imm. sk. 



/. $ ad. sk. Fantee {H. T. Ussher). Shelley Coll. 



g. $ ad. sk. Fantee. Tweeddale Coll. 



h. S ad. sk. Denkera, Jan. (Slissett). Sharpe Cull. 



i. 5 ad. sk. Coramendah, June (Blissett). Shelley Coll. 



k. S ad. sk, Aguapim, Feb. (6-'. £. 6'.). Shelley Coll. 



/. 2 ad. sk. Eniniill, Wassaw, March Shelley Coll. 

 (Blissett), 



5. Mesopicus ellioti. 



Polipicus elliotii, Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1863, p. 197 ; id. Journ. 



Acad. Philad. 1863, p. 457, pi. li. fig. 1, ? . 

 Pious ellioti, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 63 (1866). 

 Canipethera ellioti, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 83 (1868) ; id. 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 193, no. 8703 (1870). 

 Poliopicus ellioti, Hargitt, Ibis, 1883, p. 448. 



Adult male. Back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts uni- 

 form olive ; the wing-coverts also uniform olive but with a golden- 

 brown tinge ; quills blackish brown, the outer webs of the second- 

 aries and the margins of those of the primaries at their base olive, 

 the inner webs of the quills spotted with white ; shafts brown ; tail 

 brownish black, the inner webs spotted with dull white at the 

 extreme base, and the central feathers partially margined with 

 olive, shafts brown ; nasal plumes, forehead, and most of the crown 

 black, the hinder part of the crown and the occiput scarlet ; nape 

 black ; lores and face buffy brown ; side of the neck and the liind 

 neck yellowish olive ; chin and throat white, the fore neck, chest, 

 and the remaining underparts and under tail-coverts dull yellow, 

 the whole being striped with black anteriorly, as far as and in- 



